Is the Adjectival Suffix -al a Strong Suffix?
Within the framework introduced by Guierre (1979), this paper challenges the commonly accepted classification of the adjectival suffix -al as a strong suffix through the study of a corpus of pronouncing dictionary data enriched with additional information from other sources such as the Oxford Englis...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/754 |
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| Summary: | Within the framework introduced by Guierre (1979), this paper challenges the commonly accepted classification of the adjectival suffix -al as a strong suffix through the study of a corpus of pronouncing dictionary data enriched with additional information from other sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary. After a review of the disparities between different analyses and classifications of that suffix in the literature, it is shown that most descriptions previously proposed are problematic. We do find -al in strong endings triggering a direct computation of stress placement, but only in certain specific subclasses. A number of sets ending in -al are highly regular, but -al by itself (i.e. when it is not associated with certain elements preceding it) does not trigger direct computation systematically. |
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| ISSN: | 1278-3331 2427-0466 |